Topic: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] - page 299. (Read 77310 times)

Here, in more detail, footage of the surrender of the militants of the Azov nationalist unit and Ukrainian servicemen blocked at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

Ahhhh... "that type of source".

During the war, the liberal nationalist Progressists’ Utro Rossii (Russia’s Morning), published by Moscow industrialists, acquired considerable influence (circulation in 1916: 40,000-45,000; in 1917: up to 150,000). They actively pushed the subject of “German atrocities” on the military front and “German domination” in the Russian rear, while also advocating Slavophile ideas about Russia’s war aims. Most newspapers, highbrow and lowbrow, came under the influence of such ideas in the beginning of the war.

Tsarist censorship strictly limited the information about military operations that could appear in the press. However, it could not stem the increasing criticism of the government. One of the main features of the Russian press during the First World War was the search for an internal enemy. The press understood the aim of the war to be the transformation of the world in accordance with, depending on the publication’s politics, Slavophile, liberal-democratic, or socialist ideals.

The fate of Russia and its tsarist government was bound up in the tragedy of World War I. Like other European powers, Russia entered the conflict with a haughty overestimation of its own military capacity and a critical underestimation of how long and costly the war would be. More than two years of total war would place enormous strain on Russia’s underdeveloped infrastructure and social conditions, contributing directly to the collapse of the tsarist regime.

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The original source was Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the Vostok battalion of the People's Militia of the DPR. The information seems to be confirmed, although not in full in terms of numbers.

LoL
Nice try, troll. I'm too valuable on another kind of front. Better keep doing what i ecxel at, unlinke drunk RA mobilized civilians of the "eastern front".
I quoted and highlighted this, because with that wording you are admitting, once again, that the "special military operation" is in fact war.

While Putin wanted to fight, UA has to fight. He wants to fight so much, that he's coordinating bataillions himself with his failing general of choice (what was his name already?). He should let the army professionals do their job, but no... This reveals overburdening. Putin is losing not only his mind, but also (t)his war. He should fight on the "political front" to not get Russia completely isolated. Instead he shows his emperor-complex. He went insane. Do you think two years of fear-of-covid self-isolation contributed to his sanity? If so, you're delusional.

EDIT: Just look at him. He's almost finished. Just wait for it.

General conclusion:
I must state with regret that the operation to defeat the enemy's Donetsk grouping, widely publicized in late April-early May, FAIL. For more than two weeks of fierce fighting (which cost both sides very heavy losses), only tactical successes were achieved. Not a single large settlement was liberated (the exception is the city of Rubezhnoye, but the battles for it began before the offensive began). Probably, certain tactical successes will still be achieved before the moment when the enemy goes over to the counteroffensive. But it is already clear that Donbass will not be fully liberated before the beginning of summer. Probably, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not even be thrown back from the suburbs of Donetsk.
And I cannot say that this result is unexpected for me. Vice versa. The art of war requires its adherents to strike where the enemy least expects them. In our case, the intention of the Russian command was so obvious, the terrain was so beneficial for the defending side, and the balance of forces was almost equal on both sides, that only ... our General Staff could count on decisive success.
At the moment, our troops are drawn into exhausting offensive battles, continuing (as I have already noted) "to play by the rules proposed by the enemy." And the point is not only and not so much in individual examples of "outstanding bungling" (such as forcing S. Donets), but in the fact that losses incurred in daily offensive battles (not ending in the defeat of the enemy) cannot be quickly compensated by trained replacements. While the enemy continues to frantically prepare its strategic reserves. And where he will deliver his blows, when our troops finally "run out of steam" - no one knows (although this can also be predicted, but I will not do this publicly ... until I do).

What should be done in the current situation, when it became CLEAR THAT OUR TROOPS CANNOT DEAL EVEN LIMITED DAMAGE TO THE ENEMY IN A FIELD BATTLE, and when it is NECESSARY TO PREPARE FOR A PROTRACTED HEAVY LARGE-SCALE WAR - I have written and said more than once. So far, only "a good friend of all Urgants" has responded and stated that nothing of this will be done ... Well, well ...

Frictions between Russian occupation administrations and pro-Russian collaborators is growing in occupied areas of Ukraine. The Zaporizhia Oblast Military Administration reported that Russian forces are having serious conflicts with collaborators due to interpersonal power conflicts.[4] A well-known collaborator in Zaporizhia accused the Russian-installed governor of the area of stealing his 10,000 ruble compensation. Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryshchenko additionally claimed that relatives of those mobilized into the forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) are holding a mass protest against mobilization in Donetsk City. While ISW cannot independently verify these claims, such discontent amongst occupation elements suggests a general lack of planning by Russian authorities in occupied areas, now compounded by increasingly evident Russian losses.

Wet fantasies about lend-lease and about a million recruits in the tenth wave of mobilization? Freshly.

Why are you still not on the eastern front?

The good news for you inhuman scum: you won't need the subtitles.
The bad news: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/ur7uv9/brutal_honesty_retired_russian_colonel_and/

Face it. Pride doesn't make scum more shiny. Putin's Russia will bite its teeth out on the Ukraine assault. After that, the country will be ruined. Happy North Korea Version 2.0  
I feel sorry for all the truly good people that didn't make it out of Russia yet, even if they are few. Most others are misled. Like you, poor puppy. Go get a bone...

Four healthy Nazis of Azov carried each seriously wounded on a stretcher, no one returned to the bunker. I think now the wounded will receive medical care, the healthy will be interrogated, and only then they will decide what to do with them. They surrendered and their fate is now in the hands of the DNR. The end of the myth about the underground thousand, in short.

The original source was Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the Vostok battalion of the People's Militia of the DPR. The information seems to be confirmed, although not in full in terms of numbers.

They're swapping the wounded ones. It makes sense for Russians to keep them alive so not sure what you're getting at.

Source?

It seems that, according to some users here, US army colonel Douglas Macgregor, who talks about a possible takeover of western Ukraine by Poland, is also a Russian propagandist.

Or they will break the exchange agreement

Looks like it is people with 'Z's giving the wounded Azov people(?) the medical help they badly need.  Are you saying that (the shrinking) Ukraine is only swapping healthy Azov 'defenders' and leaving the sick and wounded to the care of Russia/Donesk?

On May 16, 53 seriously injured people were evacuated from Azovstal to a medical facility in Novoazovsk for medical care. Another 211 people were taken to Olenivka through the humanitarian corridor. An exchange procedure will be carried out to return them home.

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UK soldiers in Azovstal. EU Gas-for-EUROS lie. Romania Eurovision vote rigged. (Alex Christoforou)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2uIm4CSzas

It seems that progress has finally been made with Azovstal. Right now, a silence regime has been declared and an agreement has been reached on the surrender of 650 wounded Azov fighters to the DPR. No extraction, surrender.

They have been swapped with Russian prisoners of war. Great victory for the glorious Russian military, who can't defeat even injured Ukrainians after 3 months of bombing.

You call a "democratically elected government" what was elected five years after the anti-constitutional coup in Kyiv in 2014 (Euromaidan), when 1 million protesters decided for 45 million Ukrainians how they should live, without holding a general vote. Protests against the illegal coup were brutally suppressed in Mariupol and Odessa in 2014. Acting President of Ukraine Aleksandr Turchynov initiated an anti-terrorist operation (ATO) against the DPR and LPR, and under this sauce the Kyiv authorities bombed their own population for several years, as a result of which 14,000 people died, including more than a hundred children. Residents of the republics unrecognized by Kyiv at first didn't want to separate from Ukraine at all, they just wanted to remain part of the country, but to be given the opportunity to speak and teach children in Russian. But after the brutal treatment of the people of Donbass by the Ukrainian government, they now perceive it as a sworn enemy. Euromaidan in Kyiv is as if Trump supporters in 2021 managed to carry out a coup d'état by capturing the Capitol, and then they would call their government democratic.
Considering Ukraine a democratic state is at least naive.
Under President Petr Poroshenko (2014-2019), the Prosecutor General of Ukraine was thrown out of office in exchange for $1 billion when his personality didn't suit the American government (read - Biden). This is direct proof that Ukraine is just a US puppet.
Zelenskiy is now banning opposition parties in Ukraine and, in fact, only one state-owned TV channel operates there.
In March, a member of the first Ukrainian negotiating delegation, Denis Kireev, was shot dead in Kyiv by SBU officers because he could support Russia. In April, Zelensky took hostage the head of an opposition party, Ukrainian citizen Medvedchuk, and wanted to exchange him for captured Ukrainian soldiers. I don't remember something like that in the history of democratic states, so that their citizens were forcibly captured, in order to be later exchanged for other soldiers of their own.
In Ukraine, they even publicly kidnap priests.
In the so-called democratic Ukraine, citizens *suspected of theft* - instead of taking them to the police - are tied to poles, doused with green paint, take off their pants and beaten. Is this the standard of democracy to which we should strive?
And Western propaganda is at least no better than Russian propaganda. German journalists deleted video with uncomfortable eyewitness testimony from Mariupol. The Spanish TV channel deliberately did not insert subtitles with a translation about how the Azov people threatened to kill civilians. The English "journalist" abruptly interrupted the broadcast when he had nothing to object to the Russian diplomat. The Italian magazine La Stampa published a photo from Donetsk, which was hit by a Ukrainian rocket for a photo from Kyiv. There are many more examples of how people in Western countries are being brainwashed.

It seems that progress has finally been made with Azovstal. Right now, a silence regime has been declared and an agreement has been reached on the surrender of 650 wounded Azov fighters to the DPR. No extraction, surrender.

It's the Ukrainian people tell how it is, the own army is shooting them
https://www.bitchute.com/video/JusrVUx4nSG8/

Why Did Lloyd Austin Call Sergei Shoigu?  ( Lira Gonzalo )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwjb7_sxVUU

UK soldiers in Azovstal. EU Gas-for-EUROS lie. Romania Eurovision vote rigged. (Alex Christoforou)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2uIm4CSzas

Shit happens....